Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Mental Health Practitioner – Homeless Healthcare
The closing date is 09 November 2025
Are you driven to tackling mental health-inequalities in our diverse multi-cultural homeless population in Southampton?
If you're someone who is passionate about providing high-quality holistic care and advocating for marginalised societal groups, then don't miss your opportunity to apply for this unique and varied role within our Homeless Health Care Team.
We welcome applications from Registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Allied Health Professionals (AHP) including Occupational Therapists.
Only open to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to: Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service, Isle of Wight NHS FT or Hampshire Hospitals FT.
Main duties of the job
You will have a good range of mental health knowledge and experience working with individuals who have experienced mental health issues.
You will be responsible for care‑coordinating a small caseload of service users who are experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness who find it difficult to engage with mental health and drug & alcohol services. You will have experience in assessing and formulating individual intervention plans and outcome measures for adults with complex biopsychosocial problems and have current knowledge of NHS policies and practices in mental health. You will work in a strengths‑based and recovery‑focused way to support services users to meet their mental health needs.
You will have excellent communication skills to enable you to foster relationships and engage with a variety of individuals from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds and partner agencies including CGL, Probation services and Southampton City Council local authority.
You will contribute to weekly multidisciplinary team meetings and work in partnership with colleagues to evaluate care plans.
You will be a positive role‑model, reflecting a commitment to maintaining a culture of learning from incidents and valuing two‑way feedback.
You will be responsible for providing supervision arrangements, to ensure practitioners are offered opportunities to develop their skills, knowledge and keep up‑to‑date with current practice.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high‑quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job responsibilities
* Carry a small caseload, deliver evidence based interventions using a trauma‑informed approach.
* Participate in weekly multi-disciplinary team meetings.
* Assess risk, develop risk management plans in line with the Trust's policies and procedures.
* Be proactive in monitoring mental health needs and respond in a timely fashion to any changes.
* Formulate care plans in collaboration with individuals and partner agencies.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered with NMC, Social Work England or HCPC
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
£38,682 to £46,580 a year (based on full time hours)
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